Not worth a trip to the theater, but worth renting.

Rating: 5/10 (14 July 2003)

28 Days is different than any movie I've seen recently. I like the plot, however I feel as if they tried to fit too much story into one movie. There were a few different parts of the plot being developed when I felt like they should have tried to focus more on certain areas. It is obviously a low budget film, but that doesn't really hurt the movie's rating as far as I am concerned. What does hurt it is how they don't explain a lot of the plot and they spend too much time with what I like to call "empty film time". "Empty film time" is when they spend time showing a character doing something somewhat pointless or overly ordinary. Such as walking around, eating, up-close views of facial expressions, etc. While I realize that a low-budget film needs a lot of things to feel the voids, I believe they could have used this time for more in depth dialogue. I want to know how and why the monkeys became infected and a more in-depth description of what happen in the world. Overall, I would give this movie a 5.